It says he's a DJ/producer, but doesn't give any examples of his work. You'd think he'd be proud of his music, right?

I was legit curious, so I dug in and found his SoundCloud, and for the last five years, it's just "motivational" speeches. Nothing in the last five years. And what I did find has not aged well. I'm going to guess he's always been a speaker first and a producer second. Which is fine, if you want to teach people how to become a speaker, but at this point, it looks like his priorities are outside of music, and I kind of see why.

There's a lesson we can learn from this, summed up by a somewhat more legitimate artist.

Wrong forum, this is for other people's stuff that you like.

Pretty sure that's against the terms for a lot of contests, use those stems with caution.

Not if they're at -40dB compared to everything else. That's a factor of 100. It just doesn't look that way because of the scale.

Well, it's up to the copyright holder to decide whether to take down a track, so unless you have explicit permission to upload, there's no way to know for sure.

So I'd have something to do with all the stuff I wrote.

1. East West/ Quantum leaps plugins. These are a bit pricey to purchase outright but they have a new producer cloud now that is only $30 a month and give you access to the entire database of sounds.

2. Sylinth plugin. This is one of the top notch synthesizer plugins in todays market and have been for some time now. If you look hard enough you can even find data banks that add to the content of sounds within the plugins.

3. Blu Cats Audio Suite. This is a must have and contains over 90 different plugins from equalizing to limiters, Gate effects and Compressors; Basically everything you'll ever need to help improve the quality of each sound you will have it in this plugin suite (Highly Recommended)[/url]

1) Other than the fact that EWQL is mostly orchestral sounds, $30 a month for producers living off an allowance from their parents? Have you lost your goddamn mind?
2) Congratulations on getting the name wrong.
3) Congratulations on not being able to spell "Blue Cat".
Your copy/paste self-promo wall of text needs a little work.

E: and while we're here... Really? I tell people to make their own sounds, and not rely on sample packs, but nobody says someone "can't make their own beats" if they go to premade sounds once in a while to save time. Have fun making a snare without at least one sample. (It's possible, but again, aren't there things you'd rather use your time for?)

Learning piano isn't essential to being able to produce, but it does have tons of advantages! 

Completely true.

or theory

Less true. Music theory covers everything in composition. People love to brag about how they didn't need it because they don't know they do. Music theory isn't tritone substitutions and four part counterpoint, it's basic things like scales and chords.
And rhythms.
Yeah. If you want to have the tiniest chance of doing anything interesting, theory is kind of important.

You're going to see the same few progressions a lot regardless of genre.
Screenshots won't really tell you much from a distance, other than voicing.